UIC v Middle Tennessee State

[Greg]

How is the feed and announcers on Flosports uiclaflame?

[UICJohn]

Let’s not forget that Clay came in as a 3-star prospect and a top 250 national. The talent is there. Super stoked for it to be harnessed.

Keep it up in the second half!

[uiclaflame]

Nov 24, 2023 16:19:33 GMT -6 Greg said:

How is the feed and announcers on Flosports uiclaflame?

Better than ESPN+ UIC game feeds and A/V - but that's not saying much lol.

Feed is clear but limited camera angles.

Announcers are pretty good IMO. They are non-UIC guys but seems to have done their research and get the little things right (e.g., pronouncing Yak's name right). Also made comment about how our team has goal of getting at least 26 deflections per game - and they were counting our deflections in real-time. And have been speaking very positively about our defensive showing so far

[UICJohn]

Heard that they had our name as UCI on screen at first.

[Greg]

Thank you
Now I'm starting to regret not buying it

[uiclaflame]

Nov 24, 2023 16:23:53 GMT -6 UICJohn said:

Heard that they had our name as UCI on screen at first.

Yea - I was irked by that initially lol - but they did fix it pretty quickly into game

[Greg]

Are we causing so many MTS turnovers or are they bad ballhandlers?

[manre]

21-34 half time per Instagram

[UICJohn]

Up 50-28 with 10 minutes to go.

Is this the most complete game of the Yaklich era?

[Greg]

Great win 70-40

[waadle]

What a win. Middle Tennessee was one of the two teams picked to win the CUSA conference, along with liberty. Kempom rank of 133 compared to our 178. Great game defensively, UIC did not allow them to score for 8min in the 2nd half and won by 30!

[uiclaflame]

Nov 24, 2023 16:50:14 GMT -6 Greg said:

Are we causing so many MTS turnovers or are they bad ballhandlers?

So learned from the announcers that MTSU was without their starting PG due to achilles injury - and needed to figure out how to play without him. So i do think MTSU without primary ballhandler - and they were definitely sloppy. But it did look like our guys had a good defensive scheme (we were doubling their big hard early - and that was causing problems) and  our guys seemed super active and locked in on D. Another factor to consider is the refs really weren't calling much fouls at all - and really let guys get up on MTSU.

[Big D]

Was not expecting that final score. Wow. This is exactly the way we needed to start this tourney.

It’s possible they won because I didn’t watch. Tempting but $30 for a month is robbery. Anyway, UIC probably has an .800 win percentage when I don’t watch over the years, so maybe me ignoring them this weekend isn’t a bad thing.

Clay apparently had a hell of a game. We need the sophs to step up and he did in a big way.

Great win!

[Greg]

Nov 24, 2023 17:23:04 GMT -6 uiclaflame said:

Nov 24, 2023 16:50:14 GMT -6 Greg said:

Are we causing so many MTS turnovers or are they bad ballhandlers?

So learned from the announcers that MTSU was without their starting PG due to achilles injury - and needed to figure out how to play without him. So i do think MTSU without primary ballhandler - and they were definitely sloppy. But it did look like our guys had a good defensive scheme (we were doubling their big hard early - and that was causing problems) and  our guys seemed super active and locked in on D. Another factor to consider is the refs really weren't calling much fouls at all - and really let guys get up on MTSU.

Thanks for the info uiclaflame
Looking forward to the next game
Go Flames!

[bigsaltine]

That was a great win, it’d be awesome if they could pick up one more at this MTE.